paraclinical

Pertaining to abnormalities (e.g. morphological or biochemical) underlying clinical manifestations (e.g. abdominal pain or fever). Used also as a collective term for the sciences that deal with pathology, including clinical pathology and immunology, and pathogenic agents including microbiology, parasitology and toxicology.

• p. tests — laboratory tests in the area of pathology, clinical pathology, immunology, microbiology, parasitology, toxicology.